Prince plays two

By releasing two albums on the same day, Prince plays to a pair of personality traits that have defined his career: his endearingly prolific creativity and his maddening ability to edit himself.

Art Official Age(**1/2 out of four), a vintage-styled set of funk and soul, and PlectrumElectrum(**1/2), an album with his female power trio 3rdEyeGirl, sound too different to have been packaged together but suffer from the same problems: highlights thrilling enough to both raise expectations and ma...